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Old 10-25-2006, 09:01 PM
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started polishing the valve covers and relocating the coils. the wires are on, i just need to make the brackets for the coils. with the valve covers, i ground the coil mounting tabs and im going to tig weld the holes so they are all smooth. im going to paint the two stripes on them black. they are nowhere near done. still need to do some more sanding and fill the holes. but they will look when they are done.
heres a few teaser pics



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i am doin the same thing on my car
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started polishing the valve covers and relocating the coils. the wires are on, i just need to make the brackets for the coils. with the valve covers, i ground the coil mounting tabs and im going to tig weld the holes so they are all smooth. im going to paint the two stripes on them black. they are nowhere near done. still need to do some more sanding and fill the holes. but they will look when they are done.
heres a few teaser pics



Nice. I started to polish mine. I realized just how much work it was going to be to get them to be half way decent and decided to paint them instead. All you need to do it start sanding a little and you realize how much work Firehawk joshua puts into his products. And in the end you still wind up with a butt ugly valve cover. I'd have Joshua polish mine if I liked the stocker to begin with.
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cool idea wished I thought of that before I painted mine.
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i gettin ready to do the same thing to mine but silver with red in the grooves
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Lots of work, but thats what will set it apart at the shows. Looking great so far. Best thing about winter, modding!!!
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what did u grind the mounts with? also, does anybody know if bondo will work to fill the holes or is the heat too much?
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what wires did you use?
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i cut the tabs of with a sawzall, then used a 90* diegrinder with an abrasive disc.
i used LT1 MSD wires

heres a couple pics of the relocation kits i made

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lookin good, I can't wait to come home and start to do mine!
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Just alot of work looks nice
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Wow that is nice... so when you take those coil mounting bosses off... does it leave holes all the way through the valve cover or just little dimples?

Thanks, -Dave
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just little dimples
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